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  1. How does party discipline affect legislative behavior?
    evidence from within-session variation in lame duck status
    Author: Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda
    Published: April 2022
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    How important are political parties in motivating and disciplining elected officials? Using a difference-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents're-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties fully... more

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    How important are political parties in motivating and disciplining elected officials? Using a difference-in-discontinuity design, we study how shocks to incumbents're-election probabilities affect legislative behavior in a setting where parties fully control candidate selection. We find that within-session variation in lame-duck status has a strong negative effect on the probability of showing up in parliament to vote. We find, however, no clear evidence that lame-duck status affects the extent to which legislators deviate from the party line. Our findings align well with the citizen-candidate framework, where candidates have fixed ideological positions that do not vary based on electoral incentives.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/260827
    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9697 (2022)
    Subjects: political parties; party discipline; roll-call votes; legislative speech; difference-in-discontinuity design
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 52 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Polarization in parliamentary speech
    Author: Fiva, Jon H.; Nedregård, Oda; Øien, Henning
    Published: January 2021
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    We study political polarization in a parliamentary setting dominated by strong parties. In addition to examining polarization along the left-right dimension, we consider political divergence between legislators belonging to the same political bloc.... more

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    We study political polarization in a parliamentary setting dominated by strong parties. In addition to examining polarization along the left-right dimension, we consider political divergence between legislators belonging to the same political bloc. Are politicians' background characteristics unimportant when parties have powerful tools to discipline their rank-and-file? We investigate this question using legislative speech from the Norwegian Parliament and recently developed techniques for measuring group differences in high-dimensional choices. Across the background characteristics we consider - gender, age, urbanicity, and class background - we document substantial differences in speech, even when comparing legislators from the same party bloc and policy committee. Our results illuminate how individual legislators shape policymaking in party-centered environments.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/232415
    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8818 (2021)
    Subjects: political polarization; text analysis; penalized logistic regression
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 61 Seiten), Illustrationen